Revolving fire-arm



F. W.HO0D.

REVOLVING PIRE ARM.

Reissued Deo. 5, 1882.

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y UNITED STATES" PirrnNr OFFICE.

FREEMAN Wr. HOOD, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

yREVOLVING FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 10,257, dated December 5, 1882, Original No. 116.593, dated July 4, 1571. Application for reissue filed Octoher, 183:2.

- State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Revolver Fire-Arms; and I dohereby declare the sameto bedescribed in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, and Fig. 2 a bottom view, of a pistol provided with vmy invention,

the rotarycharge-magazine being represented in such figures as drawn laterally out of the stock. Fig. 3 is a vertical `and longitudinal section of the tire-arm, showing the chargemagazine as within the stock, or the chamber or space thereot for reception of such magazine.

1n this pistol the rotary charge block or magazine A is pivoted upon a swinging arm, B, which,at or near its front end, is jointed or pivoted to the barrel C, the joint pin or pivot being seen at a.. That part of the swinging arm on which the magazine revolves is shown at b, it being of sufficient length to admit the magazine to slide the necessary distance lengthwise on it.

rlhe recess in the stock D for the reception of the magazine is shown at c, especially in Fig. 4, which is a side view of it as it appears without the magazine and its appurtenances.

In advance ot the magazine and upon the swinging arm is a slide-piece, E, formed as represented, and particularly in Fig. 5, which is a top view, and in Fig. 6, which is a rear elevation ofit. It will be observed that itis a wedge-shaped block ot' metal, provided not only with a suitable opening, d, to receive the swinging arm, but with a bore or hole, e, corresponding in diameter with that of the barrel, and constituting a continuation of the bore of the barrel when the slide-piece is within its socket. The rear lend of the barrel, or that part of the magazine-socket next to the front face ofthe slide-piece, is beveled to correspond wilh the bevel ot' the front of the slidepiece, andto operate as an abutment for the slide-piece, and to constitute a cam,k,to press it back while the magazine is in the act of being moved into its recess.

A lever-latch,F,provided wit-h an actuatingspring, e', pivoted in the stock and arranged as shown, serves, by catching into a recess or notch,f, in the swinging arm, when the latter is in its innermost position, to hold the arm and the magazine in place relatively to the stock, or while the piece may be tired.

The, slide-piece E is to admit of the magazine being moved laterally ont ot' its recess y and intoit, as occasion may require. The slide-piece enables the magazineto slide forward on its spindle while both are being moved out of the recess, the movement being suiiicient to prevent the back ot" the recess from estopping the magazine. While the magazine is in the act 'ot being moved inward the slidepiece, by the action ot' the beveled cam, will, with the magazine, be forced back on the spindle or pivot ot' the magazine, and when the magazine may be back in the recess such slide-piece will hold it in its rearmost position therein.

Against the rear end of the magazine is the cartridge-retractor G, it being formed as shown in rear view in Fig. 'Zand in side view in Fig. 8. Fig. 9 is a rear end view, and Fig. 10 aside View, of the magazine without the retractor. The said retractor Gr is adisk or circular plate, perforated, as shown at h,to tit upon the rear part or projection, t", of the magazine. The retractor has a diameter a little greater than that of the magazine, and is connected to such magazine by two projecting pins, k k', that enter corresponding holes in the magazine and slide freely therein. The pins kk are keptin connection with the Vmagazine and retractor by means of screws l l, screwed into said retractor, and heads 0 o on the other ends of the pins, said heads being larger in diameter than and projecting beyond the body of the pins, and arranged in stop sockets or bores m m, as shown. By taking hold ot vthe retractor with the thumb and index-finger, applied vto opposite parts of its periphery, the retractor, when the magazine is ont of its recess, may be drawn backward, so as to extract at once from the magazine` all the cartridges or cartridgeshells that at the time may be in the chargechambers o o o' o thereof'.

I do not claim a cartridge-extractor as made and applied to a magazine in manner as shown in the United States Patent No. 49,912; nor do I claim anything described and shown in the United lStates Patent No. 26,919.

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1. The stock D, having its rotarymagazinereceiving chamber closed at bottom and open laterally to receive the magazine, in combination with the arm B, for supporting such magazine, pivoted to the stock or barrel so as to swing laterally or horizontally relatively thereof.

2. The magazine provided with the series otA charge-chambers and with the retractor guide screw shouldered holes, as described, arranged between such chambers, and also with a cylindrical passage made through it (the said magazine) axially for reception'ot' the swinging arm B,in combination with the stock D,havingits `rotary-magazine-receiving chamber closed at bottom and open laterally to receive the m`agazine, and with the said arm pivoted tothe bar- 'rel so as to swing laterally under it, and with the retractor consisting ofthe perforated plate Gand the headed screwsk, all being arranged and 1o operate substantially as set forth.

3. The Wed ged slide-piece E, arranged in advance of the rotary magazine, and adapted with it to slide `on the pivoted arm B llengthwise thereof,in combination with the said arm and magazine, and with the stock provided with the abutment or cam karranged init (the said stock,) and for operating the said slidepiece E, all being substantially as set forth.

FREEMAN W. HOOD.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

